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Jan 27, 2014

Progarchives.com:Formed
in Hamburg (Germany), this obscure 70s heavy rock band is in the vein
of popular British, American bands as DEEP PURPLE, ATOMIC ROOSTER,
VANILLA FUDGE. Well played their intense rock is strongly melted with
progressive tendencies thanks to the use of massive electric organ
parts, long instrumental and technical structures, extended jam and
adventurous climax. With intelligence and constant creativity, the
quintet was pertaining to the evolution of rock music, particularly
sensitive to new approaches from everywhere, British late 60s style to
psychedelic feel and krautrock experimentations. Providing a high level
of musical qualities, this brilliant band deserves the attention of any
70s prog rock lovers.

Jan 23, 2014

Tracklist:
1. Snakes On The Run
2. Turn It Up
3. Medicated Goo
4. Madam Doktor
5. All Alone In The End Zone
6. Cinnamon City
7. To The Island
8. Hit & Run
9. Everybody Goes From Here
10. Time & Time Again

''Argent''
is the first album by British rock band Argent. Released in 1970, the
album did not chart in either the U.S. or the U.K. and did not produce
any hit singles, although the song "Liar" would become a top-10
Billboard hit the following year through a cover version by Three Dog
Night.

Jan 18, 2014

Barrel wasn't quite Michaels in his most minimalist two-man band format. Drummer Frosty was still the prime accompanist, and Michaels played most of the other instruments, but Drake Levin did help out on guitar. The strengths of the album are the strengths of most of Michaels's early-1970s material: rich funk-rock-gospel vocals and keyboards. The weaknesses are also common to much of Michaels's albums from the period: a lack of truly outstanding songs and a reliance upon slow to mid-tempo bluesy songs that sound too much alike. Some moderate circa-1970 counterculture sentiments surfaced in songs like "What Now America," but the undoubted highlight was his rousing cover of Moby Grape's "Murder in My Heart (For the Judge)."

Blue
Cheer is the fourth album by Blue Cheer, released in 1969 on Philips
Records. Gary Lee Yoder contributed songwriting for the opening and
closing tracks and would later join the group as guitarist on their next
album The Original Human Being (1970).The album is the first Blue Cheer release as a four piece band, as they had always been a power trio prior.
(From Wikipedia)

Jan 17, 2014

allmusic.com:
This album is a fascinating hybrid of psychedelia and mainstream hard
rock, incorporating elements of both. Consisting of two short numbers
(clocking in a under five minutes) and a pair of extended tracks running
a quarter-hour each, it stands apart from most of the extended art rock
jams of its era by virtue of its consistent, driving beat and the
emphasis on crunchy guitar sounds (courtesy of ex-Paul Revere &
the Raiders ax-man Drake Levin and Michaels himself). The title track
and "Hold On to Freedom" seem like a lot of empty posturing, although
the playing and production on "Space and First Takes" have enough of a
psychedelic edge that its 16-minute length is mostly a virtue. "First
Names" is slightly shorter, and intense enough across 14 minutes to pull
the listener in even deeper and more successfully.

Jan 16, 2014

2008 digitally remastered reissue of this collection of unreleased demos. Even though fame and fortune never came to pass for T2, their Decca album It'll All Work out in Boomland has become an all-time classic amongst collectors of Progressive and Psychedelic music, and even in the Techno and DJ scenes. For years, fans assumed that Boomland was both the beginning and the end of the group's recorded legacy. But Acme Records unearthed an eponymous second album of material, recorded in 1970 with the original line-up as demo tracks for a planned second album. This second T2 album, had it been released in 1970, could have put the band on the same level of fame with the likes of Deep Purple, Free, and King Crimson (bands with whom T2 shared a stage). It's hard-driving opener "Highway", ablaze with wailing guitars, gives way to moody introspection, culminating with the LSD induced finale "T2".

This
self-titled album from UK Prog Rock band "Beckett" was their only
album from 1974. They have a huge following in the South Tyneside area
of England. It is worth noting that Iron Maiden covered "A Rainbow's
Gold", which is featured on the B-Side of their 'Two Minutes To
Midnight" single. And a few members of "Beckett" went on to form the
band "Back Street Crawler" with the ex-guitarist of 'Free', Paul
Kossoff.